Posts Tagged ‘reason’
Forget thinking vs. feeling dichotomy. Think/ feel holistic brain functioning
Mental Math and the Fine-Tuning of Emotions (The Dana Foundation) “You often hear the word “calculating” used to describe someone who always seems to act deliberately, guided by reason rather than emotion. The idea behind this characterization is that human nature straddles a deep divide between thinking and feeling, but current research suggests otherwise. Brain-imaging studies,…
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Fun article by Daniel Kahneman based on his new book,Thinking, Fast and Slow. How cognitive illusions blind us to reason (The Guardian): Why do Wall Street traders have such faith in their powers of prediction, when their success is largely down to chance? Daniel Kahneman explains. — “Looking back, the most striking part of the…
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